Earlier this month a programme called "Eugene Goostman" convinced enough judges at the Royal Society in London it was a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy that it supposedly became the first computer ever to pass the Turing test - so named after pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, who devised it in 1950 as a gauge of artificial intelligence.

In Japan when something momentous happens, bra-makers Triumph issue a commemorative bra. This includes the hat-trick bra, created to commemorate the 2002 World Cup in Japan, and is a collector's item. Limited edition sets were sold for 17,000 yen (£100).